Weekly Standard Shuts Down

There's a lot of whining by NeverTrumpers that this is terrible because we need dissenting voices in media, and the closing of the Weekly Standard means that we must all "kneel" to one rich arrogant man's ego.

Well, you know who might agree with that? Lee Smith, who was fired -- purged -- from The Weekly Standard last October immediately having offered them an article exposing FusionGPS, the firm that Bill Kristol hired to try to take out Trump and Cruz, for those who like to forget that last name.

I know a lot of NeverTrumpers pretend they were Cruz supporters but funny, when I was supporting Cruz, I didn't see them anywhere near me. They were taking snarky shots at Cruz and seemed to be rather enamored of Ruuuuubioooo.

Anyway, Lee Smith offered a rich (well, at least he lives richly off other people's money) arrogant man whose ego cannot bear to hear any dissenting voices a story about the company he paid (or rather, used his donors' money to pay) for dirt on Trump and Cruz, and was canned.

I have repeatedly brought this up and I have not seen a single NeverTrumper, or one of the people eulogizing this magazine which supposedly fostered a spirit of contrarianism and dissent, so much as mention it, let alone condemn it.

So to all of those Weekly Standard people upset about losing your jobs -- Lee Smith lost his job last Christmas (he was fired in October, but generously paid through Christmas), and none of you said a goddamn thing.

If you want some advice on how to recover from an unexpected firing, write me and I'll give you his email; he went through all this (and is still going through some of this) himself. Maybe he can help.

So spare me. As usual, you're all in favor of deplatforming and scalphunting, so long as it's people you don't like being deplatformed and scalphunted.

Another claim being made is that there were buyers but mean old Clarity Media put an end to that.

The grossly fat John Podhoretz, for example, wrote "There were buyers. Potential buyers." But he claimed that the search party for buyers was told to stand down in September.

So that Clarity Media could strip The Weekly Standard for the few assets it had which were actually valuable, like its subscriber list.

Dealing with this one at a time:

Obviously, potential buyers are not actual buyers. Or we'd just say "buyers." So once again, we have a cuck claiming that there were "buyers" but then when you ask, "so why was it not bought?," they start talking about potential buyers.

Well, Kurt Schlichter is a potential buyer. So are commenters here, who talked about putting together an IndieGoGo buyout fund.

But none of this is serious, is it?

Furthermore, Hayes and his search party were permitted to seek buyers for months, and found none. Further beyond that, whether or not they stop actively looking, People have known that TWS was buyable since the search began. They could have made offers at any time.

They didn't. Because there are no buyers. Just... potential buyers.

Lastly, this shit about Clarity wanting to shut down an unprofitable, money-losing biilionaire's vanity project and recover something valuable from it:

When you decide to rely upon the kindness and generosity of a billionaire donor, and are not actually profitable -- when your "business model" is to be a charity forever -- well, sorry, but that means you have an Audience of One. If Phil Anchultz thought that his Vanity Project was no longer boosting his vanity, because, let's say, it was a moribund, low-influence afterthought, well, you lost your audience of one.

You were being kept afloat to make his estimation of himself larger; if you produced dreck, and precious little of it to boot, that's on you.

Next, and finally: This idea that if the rest of the magazine is failing and valueless, but one aspect of it has value (the subscriber list), then it is immoral and terrible to "strip" the company for its "assets:"

Isn't this part of the cycle of creative destruction of capitalism you defend and claim is central to conservative identitarianism? Wasn't the candidate you loved in 2012, Mitt Romney, a practitioner of just this sort of wring-inefficiencies-out-of-the-market-by-breaking-down-nonperforming-companies-and-selling-their-useful-parts capitalism?

You're not very good capitalists if you suddenly start whining "Oh no, capitalistic profit-seeking and inefficiency-eliminating hurts when it happens to you! No fair, no fair! Make the bad men stop!"

You guys can't talk like Gordon Gecko when it's someone else getting a pink slip but then whine like Michael Moore when it's you.

There are bad guys here -- but they're not Clarity Media, who kept this sinking ship afloat with bales of money for a long time.

The bad guys here are the ones who purged dissenting voices, spiked any story that wasn't explicitly anti-Trump, resulting in a relatively low amount of product on offer and usually the same repetitious product again and again and again (Jeryl Bier's 6000th toss-off "column" on how Trump coarsens civic dialogue! YAYYY!!), and refused Larry O'Connor's common-sense recommendation to have some stories that actually commented on current news to increase traffic (and oh yeah -- he got fired too, because Steve Hayes was too good for "clickservatism").

Steve Hayes, the brave warrior at the gates saying "NO" to thuggish "clickservatism"

And oh yeah, the magazine also constantly baited and insulted Trump voters, also known as 88% of the GOP and 75% of the Weekly Standard's former subscriber base.

And oh -- staffers participating in what sure looked like a paid political operation against Salena Zito -- an actual colleague of the Weekly Standard (well, a fellow employee of Clarity Media, at the Examiner). Apparently for daring to be not explicitly anti-Trump.

That was swell.

Did Jim Swift receive discipline for participating in the coordinated political hit on a colleague? Or was he permitted to do it by his supervisors?

Or was he... ordered to do it?

Who knows. There are so many Pierre Omidyar-funded ops going it's hard to keep track of them all.

And oh right -- nearing the end, the sudden zealotry with which the Weekly Standard's staffers defended the honor of George Soros, accusing his critics of being antisemites.

Say, doesn't he have a lot of money he's willing to fund anti-conservative ventures with? He does? Wow, what a coincidence that at the end, the Weekly Standard turned into George Soros' PR firm.

And oh yeah: Going on an expensive hiring spree -- landing the scary talents of THE Charlie Sykes, for example -- while the magazine was already melting down financially.

He had three wives and nearly as many fans.

Take ownership of your failure, Bill, Steve, and John. You put people out of work for Christmas through a combination of ego, obsession, and heedless incompetence so rank it reaches the levels of true immorality.

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I thought that Bill Krystol and everyone over at the WS should be rejoicing in Charity Media exercising it's constitutional rights to run it's business the way it sees fit. That's all he seems to talk about when it's any other business.

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"Attention passengers, this is your Captain speaking. Captain Krystol. We have been forced to run aground and the chocolate waterfall on the Lipo Deck has been turned off for your safety. Don't panic!"

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An odd intersection where bailout could mean a literal sinking ship or an influx of cash.

Posted by: Flyguy at December 14, 2018 12:29 PM (t+zXk)

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>>The fall of the Weekly Standard is also about the marginalization of thoughtful conservative opinion

But, definitely NOT about a product nobody wants to buy.

Posted by: garrett at December 14, 2018 12:29 PM (+CNzG)

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Anyone remember Walter Winchell? I don't because he pretty much operated and died before my time, but I've read about him from time to time.

In his wiki Larry King says at the end of his Winchell was reduced to making copies of his schtick and handed them out on street corners. I'd like to see the same thing happen to Kristol. Just totally discredited.

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"I have repeatedly brought this up and I have not seen a single NeverTrumper, or one of the people eulogizing this magazine which supposedly fostered a spirit of contrarianism and dissent, so much as mention it, let alone condemn it."

Yup. That's it in a nutshell. "Smoking gun? WHAT smoking gun!?!"

Twelve years ago it was always "Buuuush!" Now it's "Truuump" or "Russiaaaa!"

They don't even change their playbook, confident - rightly so - that most Americans are too dumb or disengaged to notice.

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I'm not sure I know a single person that genuinely supported Ted Cruz in the primary, it was more like a "maybe we nominate Cruz and somehow we'll get a do-over?"

I don't think Cruz would have won, but he was about as doctrinaire as a conservative could be. I'd love to know the reasons in an alternate universe for why NeverTrump would have become NeverCruz. Too religious?

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I was going to make a joke about the Fall of the House of Krystol, but when I went and looked up at the text, I literally only had to substitute "Krystol" for "Usher" and nothing else:

"DURING the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Krystol. I know not how it was --but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit. I say insufferable; for the feeling was unrelieved by any of that half-pleasurable, because poetic, sentiment, with which the mind usually receives even the sternest natural images of the desolate or terrible. I looked upon the scene before me --upon the mere house, and the simple landscape features of the domain --upon the bleak walls --upon the vacant eye-like windows --upon a few rank sedges --and upon a few white trunks of decayed trees --with an utter depression of soul which I can compare to no earthly sensation more properly than to the after-dream of the reveller upon opium --the bitter lapse into everyday life --the hideous dropping off of the veil."

After this magnificent display of firm courage in the face of adversity, Mr. Kristol bows, turns and wanders back into his office, firmly closing the specially manufactured French Doors behind him, one last time.

Fade to black.

Posted by: Blake - tis the season for grinching at December 14, 2018 12:35 PM (qC1Sy)

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Uh, no one is stopping their voices from being heard. They can still write.

They are bitching that they will no longer get PAID to be a gadfly.

They can open their own webpage. Hell, its super easy, barely an inconvenience.

And I'm sure they'd be welcome on Face Book.

They are bitching that now THEIR voices are the exact same as ours, the normal public... ie that they won't get paid, and have access to a Megaphone to MAKE people listen to them.

Posted by: Don Q at December 14, 2018 12:35 PM (NgKpN)

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Take it from an experienced publisher, they failed because the easy access to cuck pron on the internet.

89 You mean they guy who gleefully took credit for, in his mind, pushing those icky Birchers out of respectable "conservatism"?

Wow. That is an Ancient Grudge.

Me people spoke of it around the campfires but none were alive who had lived through it.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at December 14, 2018 12:36 PM (fuK7c)

90I know a lot of NeverTrumpers pretend they were Cruz supporters but funny, when I was supporting Cruz, I didn't see them anywhere near me.

The only one I can recall offhand who actually supported Cruz was Nordlinger. He actually chided Mona for living in "a Marco centric universe." I was surprised at just how completely NT he went.

I know the rest of the NRO #NT brigade were either hot for Dondi or flirting with someone else. I know Goldberg was very critical of Ted until he had to grit his teeth and pretend to back him. And he didn't even hide his dismay at that.

Maybe French was pro-Cruz. I don't remember.

I do recall pointing out that, after endorsing Cruz, they didn't run any articles making a case for him. I got a ton of upvotes, but they still were clearly lukewarm.

91Everybody knew this was happening today. Why didn't you bring your own fucking box?
Posted by: Brian in New Orleans

He was waiting for a donor to provide an empty soap-box.

Posted by: weft cut-loop[/c] at December 14, 2018 12:36 PM (ZejZP)

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i shouldn't be this way but, i would like too see kristol in an ill fitting trechcoat, pushing a three wheeled shopping cart on a sidewalk in the ghetto of vegas. the cart is filled with a squeegee, a bucket of stale piss, and a transgendered coyote. fuck that fat, greasy slob.

That fat sack of fat is sitting on money for his "charity." Pays himself like 300K per year. Why doesn't he buy TWS?

Or is he yet another 'potential' buyer?

Posted by: ace at December 14, 2018 12:37 PM (PbpT7)

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With all those experts in economic theory, foreign affairs and trade, international business administration and
management, with their elite Beltway connections, billionaire backers
and superior understanding of "how the world works"...

Not one could save a silly little newpaper?

Posted by: mikeyG at December 14, 2018 12:37 PM (LL1Be)

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"William F Buckley? You mean they guy who gleefully took credit for, in his mind, pushing those icky Birchers out of respectable "conservatism"? You mean that William F Buckley?

The current NRO is a hell of a lot closer to his vision than many want to admit.

Posted by: DocJ at December 14, 2018 12:33 PM (NYS7S) "

Yes, I mean the man whose actual principled conservatism inspired multiple generations. But keep re-litigating the John Birch Society, because the way we beat the left is by fighting battles from the 1960's.

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lol...the ship's horn never gets old. Wait! If TWS goes under, and there are no more cruises, will the horn fall out of use!?!?

Posted by: Grimaldi at December 14, 2018 12:38 PM (3MG/9)

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It would seem to me that CON-servatism was largely a racket and has been revealed to be so by a former Democrat billionaire playboy....

And I will rehash something I wrote earlier that succinctly illustrates that....

Watched an exchange between Kevin "California Dreaming" McCarthy and Steny Hoyer and I got to say Steny Hoyer got right to the nub of it and showed McCarthy and the GOP to be the useless piles of dog shit we knew them to be.

They are arguing over border wall funding and McCarthy was haranging Hoyer over funding and Hoyer quite rightly said, to parapharse...

Hey dip shit, you've got 240 members you need 214 to pass a bill, why don't you guys proposes a bill and pass it and stop this bullshit game.

McCarthy meekly said, well I hope you guys understand how hard it is to govern when you take over.

I fucking did a spit take of my coffee when that stupid mother fucker said that.

I'm pretty sure the Donks will have no trouble at all coming up with 214 votes for anything and everything they want.

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They were giving the WS away in DC. At my job, we used to 2 free copies with our Friday newspapers and they mostly went straight to the trash. Good grief, not even Politico does that anymore.

Posted by: Wendy at December 14, 2018 12:40 PM (bpemY)

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Fuck those backstabbing Vichy Conservative finks. Weekly Standard took way too long to die. Next, National Review. It is profoundly embarrassing to admit I had a subscription to that symbol of failure when I was a senior in high school.While I'm at it, come join the Ace of Spades Moron Horde on Gab, the social media that doesn't purge conservatives: https://tinyurl.com/ybxah6js

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" It would have been interesting to see Buckley s reaction to Trump. Telling also.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at December 14, 2018 12:35 PM (/B2KC) "

I'm sure he'd have started NeverTrump but I think he'd have shifted mid-term. Unlike weak minds like Goldberg and Kristol, he was able to admit when he'd been wrong about things, like admitting he was wrong when he debated Reagan about the Panama Canal Treaty. And he'd have certainly had a field day with the parade of incompetents lining up to try and beat Trump - can you imagine AOC being on Firing Line? Or Beto?

What WFB did to the JBS is, precisely, the 1960's equivalent of "deplatforming". Look, I have no interest in re-litigating the WFB vs. JBS fight. None. I'm only saying that "Saint" (to many people) WFB was every bit the archetype of the NeverTrumpers we find today and to suggest otherwise is kinda nonsense.

134There's a lot of whining by NeverTrumpers that this is terrible because we need dissenting voices in media, and the closing of the Weekly Standard means that we must all "kneel" to one rich arrogant man's ego.

Well, you know who might agree with that? Lee Smith, who was fired -- purged -- from The Weekly Standard last October immediately having offered them an article exposing FusionGPS, the firm that Bill Kristol hired to try to take out Trump and Cruz, for those who like to forget that last name.

I guess some dissenting voices are more equal than others

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at December 14, 2018 12:42 PM (TAmPV)

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89 You mean they guy who gleefully took credit for, in his mind, pushing those icky Birchers out of respectable "conservatism"?

Wow. That is an Ancient Grudge.

Me people spoke of it around the campfires but none were alive who had lived through it.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at December 14, 2018 12:36 PM (fuK7c

Well... I was like... 5, but...

Funny how the Bircher's turned out to be right. It was the 60's when Progressives (then communists) started to control school boards and such.

I was a charter subscriber to their mag, from day 1. Held my subscription all the way through the '04 election and into Bush's second term.

I think I mostly stopped needing their mag once I discovered the internet was full of places like this one. So Ace, to the extent that subscription loss is the reason their mag closed down, you are at least partially responsible. Pat yourself on the back, fella!

This is like Jordan Petersons' Clean your room stuff. It you can't handle simple things in life, you certainly should not be telling the rest of the world how WE should do stuff.
Posted by: Don Q at December 14, 2018 12:38 PM (NgKpN)

This.

Actually, the same principle applies to Democrats generally speaking. They're personal train wrecks - as evidenced by, inter alia, all the sexual harassment stuff - and they can't even keep their own party solvent, but are constantly in debt.

Please don't think of it as "going out of business," "failure," or "going down with a sinking ship." Think of it instead as "creative destruction," and how the shuttering of The Weekly Standard is a facet of free-market capitalism.

Don't forget to thank Joseph Schumpeter and the Austrian School for these words of comfort. I know I will.

Posted by: Qoheleth at December 14, 2018 12:43 PM (fD23g)

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Why should clarity provide boxes for these losers? They knew this was coming. Bring a box to work you dumb shit.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at December 14, 2018 12:43 PM (/B2KC)

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Maybe TWS can sell their chairs, like sports stadiums do with their seats when a stadium implodes.

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Let's all take a moment, and remember the "Weakly Substandard" for what it was.

It was the Playbill for Republican Failure Theater.

Posted by: rd at December 14, 2018 12:43 PM (fc49N)

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Ok Ace, your post was an epic spanking. Lol...I don't even know where to start, but finishing with a ship horn? Perfect. Thank you. I'll be smiling all day.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at December 14, 2018 12:44 PM (KTFtO)

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I'm sure he'd have started NeverTrump but I think he'd have shifted mid-term. Unlike weak minds like Goldberg and Kristol, he was able to admit when he'd been wrong about things, like admitting he was wrong when he debated Reagan about the Panama Canal Treaty. And he'd have certainly had a field day with the parade of incompetents lining up to try and beat Trump - can you imagine AOC being on Firing Line? Or Beto?
Posted by: Who is broseidon, semi-official komodo dragon shifter? at December 14, 2018 12:41 PM (oZ6kz)

WFB would have voted for Hillary. Because as we all know, the parties switched positions in the last *cough cough* years ago. So he'd be a Democrat now and would stridently oppose all Trump stands for.

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Ace,
You magnificent bastard, you read their magazine!!! and Tweets!!!

Seriously, kudos for your righteous rages.

What most of the right needs to understand is that corporate America is out to destroy them and repopulate the U.S. with a cheaper, more controllable workforce. They ain't your friends and while they may make common cause with the right from time to time on things like taxes, they ultimately despise Average Joe and their demands for ends to corporate welfare, fair trade, controlled immigration, etc.

They are using dark money to buy "conservatives" media and plant "stories" through cutouts like Global Fusion. They institute destruction of institutions like the BSA or churches by threatening to withhold money and investments.

They buy our politicians and promote political apathy as nothing seems to change. They hire shills and trolls through cutouts to promote their sorry asses on social media. Their controlled puppets in the media, think tanks, and academia promote all sorts of corporate welfare in a time of massive debt and deficits along with promoting illegal immigration that makes deficits and debt worse. They are termites undermining the West and its existing peoples to what end, I do not know. But I have my suspicions.

Posted by: depressed onlooker at December 14, 2018 12:45 PM (ROzyM)

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The problem with the Birchers afaik was when they decided Eisenhower was a communist plant. I think if that sort of thing kept going on the party would've torn itself apart in a fit of paranoia.

Posted by: Someguy at December 14, 2018 12:46 PM (h5Df3)

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>>What WFB did to the JBS is, precisely, the
1960's equivalent of "deplatforming". Look, I have no interest in
re-litigating the WFB vs. JBS fight. None. I'm only saying that "Saint"
(to many people) WFB was every bit the archetype of the NeverTrumpers we
find today and to suggest otherwise is kinda nonsense. Posted by: DocJ at December 14, 2018 12:41 PM (NYS7S)

Welch wasn't "deplatformed." He was independently wealthy, and had several publications of his own. At the time, National Review wasn't even close to a dominant conteporary social media "platform," and while WFB distanced himself and NR from JBS, it's not as though that completely silenced the Birchers. The comparison simply doesn't hold.

Posted by: Zod at December 14, 2018 12:46 PM (Bdeb0)

162Funny how the Bircher's turned out to be right. It was the 60's when
Progressives (then communists) started to control school boards and
such

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"What WFB did to the JBS is, precisely, the 1960's equivalent of "deplatforming". Look, I have no interest in re-litigating the WFB vs. JBS fight. None. I'm only saying that "Saint" (to many people) WFB was every bit the archetype of the NeverTrumpers we find today and to suggest otherwise is kinda nonsense.

Posted by: DocJ at December 14, 2018 12:41 PM (NYS7S) "

He supported Goldwater and Reagan from Day One. He didn't stab actual candidates in the back like the current Cuckservatives. The entire premise of the Buckley Rule is to accept flawed candidates because you can't expect to elect fire breathing conservatives in purple areas. I think it's nonsense to think he'd be the equivalent of complete frauds like Goldberg and French and Kristol just because he was patrician and because once upon a time he was in favor of purging a fringe element.

And unlike The Weekly Standard, at least the Birch Society still exists.

Bill Kristol calls candidate Trump.
"Hello Mr trump, I have some ideas for your campaign."
"Thanks, but I have my own people."

Bill Kristol, after hanging up, fumes. How dare he! he thinks.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 14, 2018 12:49 PM (eUVat)

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"Next, and finally: This idea that if the rest of the magazine is failing
and valueless, but one aspect of it has value (the subscriber list),
then it is immoral and terrible to "strip" the company for its "assets:"

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It must be a sad day for Patterico. Maybe he'll troll some dead threads here since he's extremely envious of ace's traffic but the inarticulate dunce can't go toe to toe with commenters he can't ban.

We're about the same age. My first exposure came later when I asked my parents what that line in the song was.

"I'm a faithful follower of brother John Birch and I belong to the Antioch Baptist Church and I don't even have a garage you can call home and ask my wife".

I've never really looked in to the Birch wars. I know that Buckley stood athwart history and yelled stop. I know that modern conservatism was born in the bosom of Barry Goldwater, but he had to run against JFK's martyred halo.

I know that Barry AuH2O was best represented by Ronaldus Maximus in that speech two weeks before the election.

It's weird that it only took sixteen years for Reagan to get elected. That seems like a trifling bit of time now. At the time it was a forever.

My favorite bit of recently learned WFB trivia, btw, is that English was his third language.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at December 14, 2018 12:49 PM (fuK7c)

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Send them a Non-Sympathy Card with the Nelson Muntz laugh printed on it?

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Dear Weekly Standard. Sorry you're out of jobs at Christmas. Maybe some self examination is in order? Half the country identifies as conservative. Of those, most voted for Trump. You decided to cater to the ones who didn't, math, yea it's a bitch. It's one thing to disagree here and there. But instead of seeing opportunity, you worked directly against all the others who do support Trump. And you were belittling to them in the process. The onslaught against Trump is bad enough, you guys threw wood on the fire. Did you really think there was enough dems that would suddenly start going on your cruises and reading your mag? Oh don't worry, you'll catch on somewhere like CNN etc. they are always in need of a conservative turncoat that they can consistently count on to agree with them, don't worry, you're independent. Just like the Soros checks you cashed. Happy Holidays.

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 14, 2018 12:50 PM (nAeGR)

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174 Really? We're talking about Birchers? When are we going to start talking about the Whigs and the Know Nothings?

So does betrayal of principle by people like Kristol and his NeverTrumper friends. I didn't support Trump in the primaries but he was the nominee of my party and I always vote for the nominee of my party. Hillary made it especially easy. But it's one thing not to vote for him in the general. It's another thing entirely to take money from the far-Left opposition to undermine a sitting Republican president.

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'We are sorry, but all of our Customer Service Employees are currently looking for New Employment. Your call is extremely valuable to us. Please stay on the line until the phone company disconnects it.'

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I didn't have anything against WFB per se (he was really more part of my parents generation) other than to note that some of his most slavish acolytes were low self esteem nonconservatives who liked that he used big words.

Posted by: Captain Hate at December 14, 2018 12:54 PM (y7DUB)

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So does betrayal of principle by people like Kristol and his NeverTrumper friends. I didn't support Trump in the primaries but he was the nominee of my party and I always vote for the nominee of my party. Hillary made it especially easy. But it's one thing not to vote for him in the general. It's another thing entirely to take money from the far-Left opposition to undermine a sitting Republican president.

To hell with those guys.
Posted by: troyriser at De

applauds this.

This is exactly It.
choice Hillary or Trump?
HILLARY!!?

what about all those conservative thhings they said in the past?
and Hillary? of Benghazi? Hillary Syria, Egypt, turkey? Hillary stating Speech is bad and shut up?

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the worn out wh..., um, prostitutes ... they were pretty successful at deceiving their target market (gullible real conservatives) for years.

Then as they became exposed as just $10 hookers, they started getting paid by a leftist donor ... to keep pushing their (not so) goods on the public. (posing as True Conservatism, but just blowing anti-Trump smoke)

The did not get "deplatformed", they just got exposed as Democrats serving The Man (DeepState). If there are any true conservatives there, they would have left already ... but those still there can now go find gainful employment, instead of being con men for leftist billionaires. As Jesus told the "woman in red" ... "go and sin no more". (BigMoney, BigPharisee ... same deal)

Posted by: illiniwek at December 14, 2018 12:54 PM (Cus5s)

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Now where will I go to fulfill my NeverTrump related cruise needs?

Posted by: Zeno the Stoic at December 14, 2018 12:54 PM (cGlgB)

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105 It would seem to me that CON-servatism was largely a racket and has been revealed to be so by a former Democrat billionaire playboy....

And I will rehash something I wrote earlier that succinctly illustrates that....

Watched an exchange between Kevin "California Dreaming" McCarthy and Steny Hoyer and I got to say Steny Hoyer got right to the nub of it and showed McCarthy and the GOP to be the useless piles of dog shit we knew them to be.

They are arguing over border wall funding and McCarthy was haranging Hoyer over funding and Hoyer quite rightly said, to parapharse...

Hey dip shit, you've got 240 members you need 214 to pass a bill, why don't you guys proposes a bill and pass it and stop this bullshit game.

McCarthy meekly said, well I hope you guys understand how hard it is to govern when you take over.

I fucking did a spit take of my coffee when that stupid mother fucker said that.

I'm pretty sure the Donks will have no trouble at all coming up with 214 votes for anything and everything they want.

The GOP is a useless pile of dog shit....

and an illegitimate political party to boot.

Posted by: Kreplach at December 14, 2018 12:38 PM (qxq6t)

^^^This. I weep because you are correct. I am so frustrated by the success of the lockstep left - they ALWAYS band together for their side and the "muh principles" defections on the right that lead to not enough votes.

So does betrayal of principle by people like Kristol and his
NeverTrumper friends. I didn't support Trump in the primaries but he was
the nominee of my party and I always vote for the nominee of my party.
Hillary made it especially easy. But it's one thing not to vote for him
in the general. It's another thing entirely to take money from the
far-Left opposition to undermine a sitting Republican president.

To hell with those guys.

Posted by: troyriser at December 14, 2018 12:51 PM (1JpTT)

To me, the obvious fact is, they never had any principles in the first place. They just decided, as participants in the game, they had to pick a side. These people just happened to pick the side on which SOME of us hold principles.

They have been revealed to be the frauds they are. Which is cause enough for anger and a sense of betrayal, but let's not pretend they ever betrayed any principles they, themselves held.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 14, 2018 12:55 PM (a2xio)

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I don't know how I will be able to face another day without Gregg "Tagg" Easterbrook's gripping sportsball coverage in the Weekly Standard.

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Having been a subscriber up until a couple of years ago , it will be interesting to see what sort of solicitations I get from their dead butt mailing list.

Posted by: jay hoenemeyer at December 14, 2018 12:56 PM (3GR94)

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Gonna smile, I'm gonna laughYou're gonna get a blood bathAnd in a moment of passion, get the glory like Charles Manson.You gotta go go go go goodbye!Glad to see you go go go go goodbye!Now I know the score. I don't need you anymore; don't want you cause you're a bore

Posted by: The Zombie Ramones at December 14, 2018 12:56 PM (rznWS)

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Josh Dawsey
@jdawsey1
White House aides/advisers told us this morning that Christie was a leading contender for chief of staff. @PhilipRucker & I had just finished astory. And now Christie puts out statement saying he's declining. So that's how this week has gone.

242223 'We are sorry, but all of our Customer Service Employees are currently looking for New Employment. Your call is extremely valuable to us. Please stay on the line until the phone company disconnects it.'
Posted by: Weekly Standard Outgoing Messages at December 14, 2018 12:54 PM (+CNzG)

* suddenly remembers house phone *
* I threw under a stack of clothing *
* last night when I received yet another *
* unwanted medicare solicitation call *

That, or he should've called over there: "Hey, I know you guys used to deliver 30 copies to Bush's WH team. Any chance you could do that for us? No? What's that? You...you're closing up shop? Huh..."
Posted by: Zod at December 14, 2018 12:50 PM (Bdeb0)

By now Hallmark must have a Going Out of Business card. I visualize a picture of Eeyore on front with the caption "I heard you were going out of business" then inside it says "HAHAHA, couldn't happen to a nicer asshole!" Although that concept might need work.

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" I didn't have anything against WFB per se (he was really more part of my parents generation) other than to note that some of his most slavish acolytes were low self esteem nonconservatives who liked that he used big words.

Posted by: Captain Hate at December 14, 2018 12:54 PM (y7DUB) "

That's definitely true, I'll agree. I like Buckley because of his principles more than because of his Boston Brahman accent and sesquipedelian nature.

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Say one thing about the Birchers: they were as effective as the Birthers. Neither group could bother with anything beyond "bow to my expertise in all domains" and pointless strutting.

Neither were any help to civilization.

Posted by: Puppeteer Hindmost at December 14, 2018 12:58 PM (NajwG)

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I think Ace knows these "conservative stalwarts" would burn him at the stake for a dollar. Maybe not even a dollar. Maybe just an invite to the right party.

Posted by: ... at December 14, 2018 12:58 PM (6SeiN)

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49 I'm not sure I know a single person that genuinely supported Ted Cruz in the primary, it was more like a "maybe we nominate Cruz and somehow we'll get a do-over?"

I don't think Cruz would have won, but he was about as doctrinaire as a conservative could be. I'd love to know the reasons in an alternate universe for why NeverTrump would have become NeverCruz. Too religious?
Posted by: Blago at December 14, 2018 12:32 PM (UfkIY)

Too conservative. It is actually why they are against Trump, now more than ever.

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You mean they guy who gleefully took credit for, in his mind, pushing those icky Birchers out of respectable "conservatism"?

Wow. That is an Ancient Grudge.

Me people spoke of it around the campfires but none were alive who had lived through it.
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And like the need to brand "compassionate conservative" accepted the biggest smear of the left, that conservatives are kooky, full of fringe looms and bad people.

So yeah, fuck him--he surrendered hundreds of future battles in advance for a few TV invites in his day.

264So does betrayal of principle by people like Kristol and his NeverTrumper friends. I didn't support Trump in the primaries but he was the nominee of my party and I always vote for the nominee of my party. Hillary made it especially easy. But it's one thing not to vote for him in the general. It's another thing entirely to take money from the far-Left opposition to undermine a sitting Republican president.

To hell with those guys.
Posted by: troyriser at De

applauds this.

This is exactly It.
choice Hillary or Trump?
HILLARY!!?

what about all those conservative thhings they said in the past?
and Hillary? of Benghazi? Hillary Syria, Egypt, turkey? Hillary stating Speech is bad and shut up?
Posted by: bah. at December 14, 2018 12:54 PM (fE+0o)

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THIS!

The Democrat Party is Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, Maxine Waters, and every corrupt grifting shyster.

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255 " I didn't have anything against WFB per se (he was really more part of my parents generation) other than to note that some of his most slavish acolytes were low self esteem nonconservatives who liked that he used big words.

Posted by: Captain Hate at December 14, 2018 12:54 PM (y7DUB) "

That's definitely true, I'll agree. I like Buckley because of his principles more than because of his Boston Brahman accent and sesquipedelian nature.
Posted by: Who is broseidon, semi-official komodo dragon shifter? at December 14, 2018 12:58 PM (oZ6kz)

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The Koch's offered to buy both Newsweek and the LA Times and I think they were turned down. There's a precedent for buyers being turned down for being on the wrong team. If Anschutz turned down a buyer because he didn't want to see WS go into the wrong hands, that's not crazy.

Posted by: bjstuggggggz at December 14, 2018 01:01 PM (zsPrA)

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252 I do regret that we never had the chance to storm a Cuck Cruise with a MoMe at sea.
Posted by: josephistan at December 14, 2018 12:58 PM (Izzlo)

Yeah, I think unlike a lot of modern 'intellectuals' who use 5-dollar words as a replacement for actual intellect, Buckley's vocabulary wasn't an affectation, it was just his normal mode of communicating.

I know Buckley was in the army, but I don't think he could have been the QB for the Lions.

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Sure. All these people in favor of "productive civic dialogue" got to hide their weak asses behind comedians, late night people and other lowlife vacuous commentators to do their dirty work of calling conservatives apes, idiots, fags and nazis.

312Yeah.... back in the day.... us squares were right. About everything.

Posted by: fixerupper at December 14, 2018 12:47 PM (8XRCm)

This.

People pointed and laughed at the antediluvians who protested against liberal initiatives, and blew off their predictions of dire outcomes.

Turns out that the antediluvians were absolutely right, in fact, were unduly sanguine about things would turn out.

For my part, I now have antennae that quiver uncontrollably on encountering those making earnest arguments about how doing something idiotic (e.g., legalizing drugs) would solve some problem, based on an unrealistic utopian vision.

It won't. Their proposal would accelerate the decline into a dystopia, and can be recognized at a glance merely from the earnest way the argument is made.

314What WFB did to the JBS is, precisely, the 1960's equivalent of "deplatforming". Look, I have no interest in re-litigating the WFB vs. JBS fight. None. I'm only saying that "Saint" (to many people) WFB was every bit the archetype of the NeverTrumpers we find today and to suggest otherwise is kinda nonsense.
Posted by: DocJ at December 14, 2018 12:41 PM (NYS7S)

That's rubbish. Buckley DID NOT excommunicate the JBS. His denunciation was directed specifically against Welch, and explicitly did not attack the membership as a class. Welch calling Ike a communist was just too embarrassing.

I have to point out that, in 1964, Goldwater was every bit as despised as Trump is today. If you want to see what the stylish "thoughtful conservatism" of the day was like, read Peter Viereck. He was like a smart version of David Brooks. And he denounced the denunciation, and NR generally. He was the guy whose reviews made it into the NYT.

Too many people are buying the lies that Jonah Goldberg sells about the early days of conservatism. Note that NR continued to publish people like Kilpatrick. They supported South Africa, and even Rhodesia.

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So was National Review getting "donations" as well as the cucks at TWS?

Seems likely.

While I was staring at their articles agape in disbelief at their championing Hillary over Trump because......something, was it "muh principles?" The ones they never defined while insisting that the election wasn't "binary?" Because there is absolutely no reason EVER for an actual conservative to push the far left, and they never gave a reason, only bullshit feelings that they never could support. The actual definition of conservatism is standing up to the Left, and they were doing the absolute opposite.

The only explanation for a nice girl spreading her legs for a monster is either that she's getting paid so much she can't refuse it or is being blackmailed where she fears for her life.

I'm guessing cash.

So TWS and NRO are merely whores and now they're aging out.

Posted by: dagny at December 14, 2018 01:06 PM (nRWPy)

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Heh, been waiting all morning for this post from Ace. Well worth the wait, great piece. And good riddance to that nasty never-Trump circle-jerk.

333Which just goes to show that they were frauds all along.
Posted by: Cato by Phone at December 14, 2018 01:03 PM (J+mig

Years and years ago I heard one of the radio talkers (Hannity maybe) say that many conservative opinion people were frauds and only in it for the money. It was left as a tease without naming names. I've always remembered that for some reason and discounted it until Trump exposed them all for what they were.

Posted by: moon_over_vermont at December 14, 2018 01:07 PM (kUmUV)

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Weird. The Weekly Standard website doesn't mention any of this impending failure at all! Looks like any regular day of cuckitude.

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yeah, the subscriber list was part of the sale ... so what's the big deal if Clarity used it? Usually the point of buying a company is to retain it as a brand ... and then keep the customers "Now under new Ownership" ... or some such, or maybe just slide along with the customers not even realizing there was a change.

So it seems clear there was little interest in paying up for the battered old sellout name, since that is what they had done to the brand.

"Weakly Standard, now with 50% more Democrats" ... or "all the news that's fit for Democrats wanting to bastardize conservatism". "The Pinto, now with improved exploding gas tank".

350Yeah, I think unlike a lot of modern 'intellectuals' who use 5-dollar words as a replacement for actual intellect, Buckley's vocabulary wasn't an affectation, it was just his normal mode of communicating.

I know Buckley was in the army, but I don't think he could have been the QB for the Lions.
Posted by: Who is broseidon, semi-official komodo dragon shifter? at December 14, 2018 01:04 PM (oZ6kz)

Neither could Plimpton; his token few downs behind center with the Lions were a good heads up on how playing at the pro level isn't for the hobbyists.

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Any instances of Kristol or TWS' other "contributors" complaining about being out of work after augering his "magazine" into the ground should be answered with Patrick Stewart intoning "Shut up, Weekly."

Posted by: Qoheleth at December 14, 2018 01:09 PM (fD23g)

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"The funny part is that Trump isn't even all that conservative, and he's *still* too conservative for them."

It isn't that Trump is too conservative, it is the fear that he actually means to do what he said he would do. It sure surprised the heck out of Chuck Schumer the other day.

ties insomnaics shoe laces together.
Posted by: bah. at December 14, 2018 01:08 PM (fE+0o)
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Cilantro is a taste of freshness--but also, I've concentrated, and I kinda get the soap, a little bit. But mostly a taste of freshness.

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185 It must be a sad day for Patterico. Maybe he'll troll some dead threads here since he's extremely envious of ace's traffic but the inarticulate dunce can't go toe to toe with commenters he can't ban.
Posted by: Captain Hate at December 14, 2018 12:49 PM (y7DUB)

Ewww, I just went to his Twitter feed to see what's up. It's all garbage.

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354 Any instances of Kristol or TWS' other "contributors" complaining about being out of work after augering his "magazine" into the ground should be answered with Patrick Stewart intoning "Shut up, Weekly."
Posted by: Qoheleth at December 14, 2018 01:09 PM (fD23g)

More? any complaining should be met with 'if you can't successfully run a damn Magazine, how do you have the Hubris to tell us to run our whole country'.

Posted by: Don Q at December 14, 2018 01:11 PM (NgKpN)

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The keelhaulee gets his skin flayed by the barnacles so that he is in agony before he drowns.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at December 14, 2018 01:10 PM (fuK7c)
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Skin flayed in salty water.

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Has anyone heard about the New Republic lately?
I didn't think so.

Posted by: xnycpeasant at December 14, 2018 01:11 PM (koNhm)

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It isn't that Trump is too conservative, it is the fear that he actually means to do what he said he would do. It sure surprised the heck out of Chuck Schumer the other day.
Posted by: Mikey NTH - Ho Ho Ho! Red Faced Rants are In at The Outrage Outlet! at December 14, 2018 01:09 PM (hLRSq)

That's exactly it. He ran because he was angry at a broken system. The Schemers of the world profit from it being broken and want to keep it that way.

They're afraid he's going to derail their gravy train.

Posted by: Cato by Phone at December 14, 2018 01:11 PM (J+mig)

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The future is chiseled in stone.
The past is written on an Etch-A-Sketch.
Season to taste.

As there seems to be no consequence for using that term on National TV.

Posted by: Don Q at December 14, 2018 01:12 PM (NgKpN)

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kristol is now hawking cat filters. eveybody needs a good cat filter.
Posted by: chavez the hugo at December 14, 2018 01:12 PM (KP5rU)
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The new shamwow guy.

Posted by: Axeman at December 14, 2018 01:12 PM (vDqXW)

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370 you cilantro dissers are just wrong tasters. Not cilantros fault, and I bet you eat liver!
Posted by: bah. at December 14, 2018 01:11 PM (fE+0o)

Only with fava beans and a nice chianti.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 14, 2018 01:12 PM (NWiLs)

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"Neither could Plimpton; his token few downs behind center with the Lions were a good heads up on how playing at the pro level isn't for the hobbyists.

Posted by: Captain Hate at December 14, 2018 01:09 PM (y7DUB) "

Pat Jordan is probably a better example of an athlete-journalist, though he never made the majors. But he had legit MLB stuff - I think he had the 3rd or 4th fastest fastball in the league at the time.

Hillary bought nearly everybody and nearly every megaphone for 2016 and still did not get elected. Just roll that over your frontal lobes for a bit. Since then they have ramped their efforts up to Ludicrous Speed and still have not stopped the Golden Scalp Weasel.

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Ace is dancing on the Weekly Standard's grave, then pulling down his pants and shitting on it, then digging up the magazine's corpse and using a lipstick to draw grotesque clown faces on its lifeless head, then eating a picnic next to the empty grave with the dolled-up corpse as an unwitting participant, playing tea party games with it, then skullfucking the corpse in an empty eye-socket, and leaving it out in the open for the hyenas to devour in the night.

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Bryan Dean Wright @BryanDeanWright For the first time in 25 years, America has the leverage to halt China's support of North Korea & Iran.

Reign in Beijing's support of WMD proliferation and it won't just be America's workers who are the big winners of the US/China trade war.

All of humanity will be made safer.
******
Not a Conservative by the way. His own description is he is Left Of Center

Posted by: Max BOOThole at December 14, 2018 01:14 PM (BqBId)

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Cilantro is a taste of freshness--but also, I've concentrated, and I kinda get the soap, a little bit. But mostly a taste of freshness.
Posted by: Axeman at December 14, 2018 01:10 PM (vDqXW)

It used to taste soapy to me (I used to think Vietnamese food was just soapy-tasting), but now I don't get any soap, it just tastes fresh. The soap thing is genetic, so this shouldn't be an acquired taste... But it is.

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Now where will I go to fulfill my NeverTrump related cruise needs?

Posted by: Zeno the Stoic at December 14, 2018 12:54 PM (cGlgB)

Welcome Aboard Sailors and Guests to the good ship NRO! Meet my dog...

Posted by: Cap'n Joney Cuckberg at December 14, 2018 01:14 PM (KMmVE)

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397 Ace is dancing on the Weekly Standard's grave, then pulling down his pants and shitting on it, then digging up the magazine's corpse and using a lipstick to draw grotesque clown faces on its lifeless head, then eating a picnic next to the empty grave with the dolled-up corpse as an unwitting participant, playing tea party games with it, then skullfucking the corpse in an empty eye-socket, and leaving it out in the open for the hyenas to devour in the night.

Posted by: bah. at December 14, 2018 01:10 PM (fE+0o) Oh, gosh, I kinda wish I had a fireplace. Then I think, Peaches, that would just be more shit to clean. So I make my peace with it. Sadly, I do have the most amazing mid-1800s brass andiron and implements set that my parents bought back in the 50s in Connecticut. It's got a ton of cool stuff and I have no idea where or how to sell it.

I would shift this around, honestly. Rhodesia on independence did its level best to lift up the blacks who wanted to be uplifted, which was most of them except Mugabe (thanks a load, Carter). South Africa, in the immortal words of PJ O'Rourke, just put it right out there: "F**k you, we're bigots."

Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at December 14, 2018 01:17 PM (PB2zu)

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]i]That's definitely true, I'll agree. I like Buckley because of his principles more than because of his Boston Brahman accent and sesquipedelian nature.
Posted by: Who is broseidon, semi-official komodo dragon shifter? at December 14, 2018 12:58 PM (oZ6kz)

There was nothing "Boston Brahman" about his accent. It was sui generis. (He actually learned English as his 3rd language, and mostly in England.)

But that's a symptom of what I hate about this talk. It's all impressionistic, with no underlying basis in reality. People just don't like Buckley for stylistic reasons, and equate his style with that of Never Trumpers (who admittedly are trying to imitate him.) But it's all a big myth.

It makes as much sense as loving Trump just because of his style, and ignoring the policies. It's pure rage, SJW-style.

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406 397 Ace is dancing on the Weekly Standard's grave, then pulling down his pants and shitting on it, then digging up the magazine's corpse and using a lipstick to draw grotesque clown faces on its lifeless head, then eating a picnic next to the empty grave with the dolled-up corpse as an unwitting participant, playing tea party games with it, then skullfucking the corpse in an empty eye-socket, and leaving it out in the open for the hyenas to devour in the night.

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397 Ace is dancing on the Weekly Standard's grave, then pulling down his pants and shitting on it, then digging up the magazine's corpse and using a lipstick to draw grotesque clown faces on its lifeless head, then eating a picnic next to the empty grave with the dolled-up corpse as an unwitting participant, playing tea party games with it, then skullfucking the corpse in an empty eye-socket, and leaving it out in the open for the hyenas to devour in the night.

I read book when I was kid on Medieval Torture Devices/Methods. Fun read.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at December 14, 2018 01:18 PM (KTFtO)

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399 Cilantro is a taste of freshness--but also, I've concentrated, and I kinda get the soap, a little bit. But mostly a taste of freshness.
Posted by: Axeman at December 14, 2018 01:10 PM (vDqXW)

It used to taste soapy to me (I used to think Vietnamese food was just soapy-tasting), but now I don't get any soap, it just tastes fresh. The soap thing is genetic, so this shouldn't be an acquired taste... But it is.
Posted by: hogmartin at December 14, 2018 01:14 PM (IqOTP)

I bet you think Lifebuoy has a piquant after-dinner flavor - heady, with just a touch of mellow smoothness.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 14, 2018 01:18 PM (NWiLs)

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And these are the people trying to preach to us about economic policy. They have no clue how the world works.

Some of them are actually going to have to make some GAINZZ to tone their flabby work muscles so that someone will actually hire them.

444399 Cilantro is a taste of freshness--but also, I've concentrated, and I kinda get the soap, a little bit. But mostly a taste of freshness.
Posted by: Axeman at December 14, 2018 01:10 PM (vDqXW)

It used to taste soapy to me (I used to think Vietnamese food was just soapy-tasting), but now I don't get any soap, it just tastes fresh. The soap thing is genetic, so this shouldn't be an acquired taste... But it is.
Posted by: hogmartin

Apparently The Cilantro Taste Shift is almost universal in humans -- it taste like sap when you're young, and then at some point in adulthood some biochemical change happens in your body, and it suddenly tastes fresh and fantastic. I'm serious -- it's a well-documented signpost in the human aging process. The Cilantro Taste Shift is similar to menopause in women or getting a beer "spare-tire" in men -- an unstoppable, irreversible late-stage biological maturation. For real.

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That's definitely true, I'll agree. I like Buckley because of his principles more than because of his Boston Brahman accent and sesquipedelian nature.
Posted by: Who is broseidon, semi-official komodo dragon shifter? at December 14, 2018 12:58 PM (oZ6kz)
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I have real misgivings about Buckley after learning just exactly what the Birchers predicted. And the difference between their press and their actual stances. They threw racists out of the Society.

I can't help but see Buckley in the role of Nevertrumpers appealing to the media by sacrificing and feeding into the media lies (as thick as they are now) about the Birchers.

Remember the media also continues to lie and encourage false conclusions about the extent of Joe McCarthy's hearings. The Dem media's lies go *way* back.

I know he wasn't a native speaker but he did have a Mid-Atlantic accent, whether you want to call it Boston Brahman or Locust Valley Lockjaw. It's not really germane to his intellect or conservative principles, but just as some people hate him for stylistic reasons, there were also people who liked him for stylistic reasons more than because they agreed with or admired his thought.

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>>Ace is dancing on the Weekly Standard's grave, then pulling down his pants and shitting on it, then digging up the magazine's corpse and using a lipstick to draw grotesque clown faces on its lifeless head, then eating a picnic next to the empty grave with the dolled-up corpse as an unwitting participant, playing tea party games with it, then skullfucking the corpse in an empty eye-socket, and leaving it out in the open for the hyenas to devour in the night.

455@BryanDeanWright For the first time in 25 years, America has the leverage to halt China's support of North Korea & Iran.

By doing what exactly?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 14, 2018 01:22 PM (aKsyK)

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"I have real misgivings about Buckley after learning just exactly what the Birchers predicted. And the difference between their press and their actual stances. They threw racists out of the Society.

Posted by: Mika's Bottom at December 14, 2018 01:20 PM (vDqXW) "

As Eeyore posted above, the split with the Birchers (and Welch in particular) had a lot to do with their paranoid stance on Einsenhower as a crypto-Commie.

458
The "it tastes like sap" trick doesn't work on women after age 35.

Posted by: wooga at December 14, 2018 01:22 PM (TmsKM)

459406 397 Ace is dancing on the Weekly Standard's grave, then pulling down his pants and shitting on it, then digging up the magazine's corpse and using a lipstick to draw grotesque clown faces on its lifeless head, then eating a picnic next to the empty grave with the dolled-up corpse as an unwitting participant, playing tea party games with it, then skullfucking the corpse in an empty eye-socket, and leaving it out in the open for the hyenas to devour in the night.

Not completely - - I forgot to mention that it was the left eye-socket, and that during the tea parry, Ace did both voices in the conversation, his own voice on one side, then a squeaky lisping little girl's voice for the Weekly Standard side.

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i saw the skull fucking hyenas open for the corpse grinders at the palladium in '80. depressing as fuck. it might have been the county fair. i'm not sure anymore.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at December 14, 2018 01:23 PM (KP5rU)

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Apparently The Cilantro Taste Shift is almost universal in humans -- it taste like sap when you're young, and then at some point in adulthood some biochemical change happens in your body, and it suddenly tastes fresh and fantastic. I'm serious -- it's a well-documented signpost in the human aging process. The Cilantro Taste Shift is similar to menopause in women or getting a beer "spare-tire" in men -- an unstoppable, irreversible late-stage biological maturation. For real.
Posted by: zombie at December 14, 2018 01:20 PM (c+2jX)
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Could be roughly similar to the Pork and Coconut taste shift I've experienced (although those were smaller shifts). My dad's favorite flavor was Coconut when I was a kid--and I didn't get this at all. Coconut was always okay for me, but it's only after 40 that I understand the desire for Coconut. I also used to wonder why Homer was enamored of Pork--and I've also heard stories about men told by their doctor to quit Pork, and some point past the age of 40, I felt like Homer.

Posted by: Mika's Bottom at December 14, 2018 01:23 PM (vDqXW)

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There once was a man from NantucketWho drove his magazine out of businessAnd he can go fvck himself.

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85 The current NRO is a hell of a lot closer to his vision than many want to admit.
Posted by: DocJ

______________

I definitely think you could make a case WFB would be NeverTrump if he was around today. At least in a Charles Krauthammer sort of way,

I like him like still, but he was really big on winning the "right way" with Republicans always using their salad forks, etc.

Posted by: Blago
Buckley famously called Gore Vidal "You queer" while debating, and I'm feeling that had a salad fork been handy it would have ended up sticking out of someone's eye.

Posted by: Dirks Strewn at December 14, 2018 01:24 PM (IeDO8)

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Their principles involved preservation of their phony-baloney jobs as the Washington Generals, the Controlled Opposition. I didn't support Trump in the primary and thought about sitting out the general, but I decided that come what may Clinton had to be stopped. But the performance of the NeverTrumpers and the GOP wing of the UniParty are the reasons that after my last move I registered to vote with no party affiliation.

Posted by: Zap Rowsdower at December 14, 2018 01:24 PM (P/ALc)

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397 Ace is dancing on the Weekly Standard's grave, then pulling down his
pants and shitting on it, then digging up the magazine's corpse and
using a lipstick to draw grotesque clown faces on its lifeless head,
then eating a picnic next to the empty grave with the dolled-up corpse
as an unwitting participant, playing tea party games with it, then
skullfucking the corpse in an empty eye-socket, and leaving it out in
the open for the hyenas to devour in the night.

Apparently The Cilantro Taste Shift is almost universal in humans -- it taste like sap when you're young, and then at some point in adulthood some biochemical change happens in your body, and it suddenly tastes fresh and fantastic. I'm serious -- it's a well-documented signpost in the human aging process. The Cilantro Taste Shift is similar to menopause in women or getting a beer "spare-tire" in men -- an unstoppable, irreversible late-stage biological maturation. For real.

...is also the same person that wrote THIS:

Ace is dancing on the Weekly Standard's grave, then pulling down his pants and shitting on it, then digging up the magazine's corpse and using a lipstick to draw grotesque clown faces on its lifeless head, then eating a picnic next to the empty grave with the dolled-up corpse as an unwitting participant, playing tea party games with it, then skullfucking the corpse in an empty eye-socket, and leaving it out in the open for the hyenas to devour in the night.

I'm....... very impressed.

Posted by: fixerupper at December 14, 2018 01:25 PM (8XRCm)

475Pat Jordan is probably a better example of an athlete-journalist, though he never made the majors. But he had legit MLB stuff - I think he had the 3rd or 4th fastest fastball in the league at the time.
Posted by: Who is broseidon, semi-official komodo dragon shifter? at December 14, 2018 01:13 PM (oZ6kz)

It's impossible for most people who never advanced beyond Little League to imagine just what it's like to face someone with MLB stuff. When Bob Feller was in his 60s he'd make appearances at Indians minor league games and challenge ticket holders to try and hit his heater. They all got blown away until one of the guys on the farm team went into the stands in street clothes, came down and started hitting them off the screws off a confused Rapid Robert while the guys in the dugout howled.

Posted by: Captain Hate at December 14, 2018 01:25 PM (y7DUB)

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459 406 397 Ace is dancing on the Weekly Standard's grave, then pulling down his pants and shitting on it, then digging up the magazine's corpse and using a lipstick to draw grotesque clown faces on its lifeless head, then eating a picnic next to the empty grave with the dolled-up corpse as an unwitting participant, playing tea party games with it, then skullfucking the corpse in an empty eye-socket, and leaving it out in the open for the hyenas to devour in the night.

Not completely - - I forgot to mention that it was the left eye-socket, and that during the tea parry, Ace did both voices in the conversation, his own voice on one side, then a squeaky lisping little girl's voice for the Weekly Standard side.
Posted by: zombie at December 14, 2018 01:23 PM (c+2jX)

482Ace is dancing on the Weekly Standard's grave, then pulling down his
pants and shitting on it, then digging up the magazine's corpse and
using a lipstick to draw grotesque clown faces on its lifeless head,
then eating a picnic next to the empty grave with the dolled-up corpse
as an unwitting participant, playing tea party games with it, then
skullfucking the corpse in an empty eye-socket, and leaving it out in
the open for the hyenas to devour in the night.

486
Having these people on our side explains that long diet of failure we were supposed to swallow for so many years.

And it also explains how we got Trump, who was the only guy who credibly offered what we were really hungry for.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at December 14, 2018 01:27 PM (oVJmc)

487
Right now Hayes and Bill are singing, and since we've no place to go....let it snow, let it snow,,,when we finally kiss goodnight. How I hate goin over to NRO...but if you really hold me tight,,,all the way home I'll be warm...

I mean, this is the time of year people buy
their hamsters and birds the plush stuff.

Posted by: STV at December 14, 2018 01:27 PM (8TZgJ)

489
Someone needs to convince Kasich to get some True Con pals (like Bennie Shapiro) and buy the Weekly Substandard.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 14, 2018 01:27 PM (ptqGC)

490
Cilantro does not taste like soap. If you eat cilantro and *think* you taste soap, it is because you are a mutant.

Zod pities you, but he does not trust you.

Posted by: Zod at December 14, 2018 01:27 PM (Bdeb0)

491
Bloomberg TV is saying that Christie declined the Chief of Staff job

Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 14, 2018 01:28 PM (OLCnA)

492
There once was a man from Nantucket
Whose magazine done kicked the bucket

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 14, 2018 01:28 PM (AllCR)

493
It's impossible for most people who never advanced beyond Little League to imagine just what it's like to face someone with MLB stuff. When Bob Feller was in his 60s he'd make appearances at Indians minor league games and challenge ticket holders to try and hit his heater. They all got blown away until one of the guys on the farm team went into the stands in street clothes, came down and started hitting them off the screws off a confused Rapid Robert while the guys in the dugout howled.
Posted by: Captain Hate at December 14, 2018 01:25 PM (y7DUB)
-------------------

One of the great things about baseball, that such shenanigans happened and still go on.

Posted by: Blake - tis the season for grinching at December 14, 2018 01:28 PM (qC1Sy)

494
Omit the Minnow, because that would mean Kyrstol would be stranded with Ginger and Mary Ann.

497
Still reading about the Communist Party in the US after WW2. They said they were for freedom, open discussion, love of the common person/worker etc. when they were in reality just the opposite. propaganda is a powerful tool for any political party.

499
If they really wanted to know where they went wrong, the best thing in the world for Kristol et al, would be to read this column, but, of course, they won't. And the excuses they rationalize into accepted dogma will be baloney of the first order.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at December 14, 2018 01:29 PM (Y24LV)

500
I don't want compassionate conservatism. I don't want thoughtful conservatism. Flagrant, naked, shameless, unrelenting, unapologetic, in-your-face Andrew Breitbart style conservatism is what I want. And even if the squishes at The Weekly Standard and NRO are convinced that Donald Trump is a swaggering tin-plated dictator with delusions of Godhood, I remain undeterred. My answer to them is "Release the Kraken!" We should all mock, taunt, and laugh at these effeminate beta-males whenever they whine and pee their pants. 'Nuff said.

Posted by: CyberCipher at December 14, 2018 01:29 PM (p6WoB)

501
The crap that was said about Trump, Cruz, Paul and others turned people off and only alienated Conservative readers.
You reap what you sow.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 14, 2018 01:29 PM (hECVl)

502
I sent him a good riddance message on his rarely looked at FB page.

Posted by: CN at December 14, 2018 01:29 PM (U7k5w)

503
I think that giving them the benefit of their being afraid of their 'controlled opposition' jobs were going south is too generous.

516
492 There once was a man from Nantucket
Whose magazine done kicked the bucket
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 14, 2018 01:28 PM (AllCR)

heh

Posted by: m at December 14, 2018 01:32 PM (bAsK/)

517
The Cilantro Taste Shift is similar to menopause in women or getting a beer "spare-tire" in men -- an unstoppable, irreversible late-stage biological maturation. For real.
Posted by: zombie at December 14, 2018 01:20 PM (c+2jX)

Well, that's interesting. I could've sworn it had a genetic component, that people who like or don't like it can detect some compound that the others can't.

518
I think Dana Perino gave Jesse Watters a subscription to The Weekly Standard and National Review as a present on The Five.

He needs to ask for a refund.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 14, 2018 01:32 PM (hECVl)

519
or that zombie just popped that off the top of his/her head.
Posted by: blaster at December 14, 2018 01:31 PM (JaLUs)

-----

her

zombie is an ette.

Which just adds to my...... astonishment.

Posted by: fixerupper at December 14, 2018 01:32 PM (8XRCm)

520I bet you think Lifebuoy has a piquant after-dinner flavor - heady, with just a touch of mellow smoothness.
Posted by: Insomniac at December 14, 2018 01:18 PM

You guys with the gourmet sh*t.

Posted by: S. "M.F." Jackson at December 14, 2018 01:32 PM (ctuyM)

521
zombie is a her, makes it more disturbing.
Posted by: orangutang at D

no one knows that for sure.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 14, 2018 01:32 PM (MTjB1)

522
Eliana Johnson
@elianayjohnson
The NDAs presented to @weeklystandard staffers forbid "false, disparaging, derogatory, critical, insulting, offensive, deprecating or belittling comment in public or in private" for two years, per copy of agreement sent to me. (Caps my own.)

Posted by: Max BOOThole at December 14, 2018 01:32 PM (BqBId)

523
Saw this interesting study at Powerline last night. It was discussing why lattes were perceived as women's drinks and foreign.

And then it ventured to say that white conservative men prefer coffee, because it's not as "foreign sounding". Ha ha the jokes are on you dumb conservatives because coffee is just as foreign!

This is not the first time I have seen Irony by Straw Man based on an inability to do anything but caricature an out-group.

Meh. All those cucks will land on their feet and probably wind up with a much larger paycheck. The anti-Christ George Soros has plenty of his filthy lucre to start a whole boatload of Prog/Marxist/Democrat web sites to destroy us with. Take a look at the millions of dollars that got JuiceVox started. Then take a look at the outrageous bullshit Progressive garbage that emanates from it.

The only thing this means for those assholes is they won't be able to buy their kid a new Mercedes this Christmas like they promised. They'll just need to wait until January or so.

530Ace is dancing on the Weekly Standard's grave, then pulling down his pants and shitting on it, then digging up the magazine's corpse and using a lipstick to draw grotesque clown faces on its lifeless head, then eating a picnic next to the empty grave with the dolled-up corpse as an unwitting participant, playing tea party games with it, then skullfucking the corpse in an empty eye-socket, and leaving it out in the open for the hyenas to devour in the night.

Posted by: zombie at December 14, 2018 01:14 PM (c+2jX)

You can't teach that kind of talent; it's either bred in the bone or it ain't there. This would burn down most creative writing programs.

Posted by: Captain Hate at December 14, 2018 01:33 PM (y7DUB)

531
Because of Scrooge McKrystol, Bob Podretz won't even get a lump of coal in his stocking this year.

539Ace is dancing on the Weekly Standard's grave, then pulling down his pants and shitting on it, then digging up the magazine's corpse and using a lipstick to draw grotesque clown faces on its lifeless head, then eating a picnic next to the empty grave with the dolled-up corpse as an unwitting participant, playing tea party games with it, then skullfucking the corpse in an empty eye-socket, and leaving it out in the open for the hyenas to devour in the night.

544
because MEN got to women's conferences and come here to tell us what all the ninnies were discussing .. at here break out table.

she slips sometimes.
Posted by: orangutang at D

not sure how long you have been here but when they showed up the discussed how they deliberately use misinformation to disguise their identity our of fear of being attacked. may have even been harassed before.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 14, 2018 01:35 PM (MTjB1)

545
" If I remember correctly Goldwater went squishy at the end. I loved Buckley but I think he was headed that way too,

Apparently The Cilantro Taste Shift is almost universal in humans -- it taste like sap when you're young, and then at some point in adulthood some biochemical change happens in your body, and it suddenly tastes fresh and fantastic. I'm serious -- it's a well-documented signpost in the human aging process. The Cilantro Taste Shift is similar to menopause in women or getting a beer "spare-tire" in men -- an unstoppable, irreversible late-stage biological maturation. For real.

...is also the same person that wrote THIS:

Ace is dancing on the Weekly Standard's grave, then pulling down his pants and shitting on it, then digging up the magazine's corpse and using a lipstick to draw grotesque clown faces on its lifeless head, then eating a picnic next to the empty grave with the dolled-up corpse as an unwitting participant, playing tea party games with it, then skullfucking the corpse in an empty eye-socket, and leaving it out in the open for the hyenas to devour in the night.

I'm....... very impressed.
Posted by: fixerupper

I'm a grandmaster of what they call "Tonal control." Most people -- almost all people, in fact -- have a distinct "literary style" that is as unique as their signature or handwriting, and as automatic and unconscious. They just write the way they write, and can't change it -- and aren't even aware that it is in any "style" at all. (This, in fact, is how they caught the Unabomber -- the feds asked the public if anyone recognized the literary style of his "manifesto" -- and his brother saw it and realized it sounded exactly like the way his brother Ted used to write. Ted himself off in his cabin had no idea that he was even writing in a "style." He was trying to be untraceable and neutral.) Anyway, a small percentage of people are not only self-aware of their stylistic "tone," but have the ability to alter it if desired. I think more people could have "tonal control" if they spent time peering at their own words and then practiced writing in different styles.

548
What sucks is I have zero doubt that Kristoll, Hayes and other high level management are walking with bags of Soros and other left wing source cash. None of them will have to worry about working again in their lives, while their employees look for jobs during Christmas. The Weekly Standard is a lot like politics, it was mostly a grift for cash.

Posted by: Baboo the Oceleot at December 14, 2018 01:36 PM (ia2he)

549
the son of a mailman and cap'n cuck are still running for prezznit, right? they are the thikin men this country needs. also, that greasy, rubber, chicken isn't going to eat itself.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at December 14, 2018 01:36 PM (KP5rU)

550I bet you think Lifebuoy has a piquant after-dinner flavor - heady, with just a touch of mellow smoothness.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 14, 2018 01:18 PM

You guys with the gourmet sh*t.

Posted by: S. "M.F." Jackson at December 14, 2018 01:32 PM

You don't have to tell us that they're gourmet. When we eat lifebuoys, we want to taste them. When Kristol buys them for the cuck cruise, he buys crap.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 14, 2018 01:36 PM (p+Wdc)

551
People like Bill Krystol are doing the same thing to conservatism as the people trying to "modernize" the church and make it more "inclusive."

They're really both the cause it their respective institutions' decline. Conservatism doesn't need this feel good message any more than Christianity needs it. People want to hear the Truth, and when the Church or Conservatives stop trying to offer the Truth because they're afraid it will push people away, then people leave anyway.

561
This, in fact, is how they caught the Unabomber -- the feds asked the public if anyone recognized the literary style of his "manifesto" -- and his brother saw it and realized it sounded exactly like the way his brother Ted used to write.

563
his, in fact, is how they caught the Unabomber -- the feds asked the public if anyone recognized the literary style of his "manifesto" -- and his brother saw it and realized it sounded exactly like the way his brother Ted used to write.

Posted by: zombie at December 14, 2018 01:36 PM (c+2jX)
---
It's amazing how clear and methodical that crazy man could write his craziness. His manifesto is well-written.

Posted by: Axeman at December 14, 2018 01:38 PM (vDqXW)

564That is nothing short of beautiful, zombie!*sniff*That was beautiful, man...

570548 What sucks is I have zero doubt that Kristoll, Hayes and other high level management are walking with bags of Soros and other left wing source cash. None of them will have to worry about working again in their lives, while their employees look for jobs during Christmas. The Weekly Standard is a lot like politics, it was mostly a grift for cash.
Posted by: Baboo the Oceleot at December 14, 2018 01:36 PM (ia2he)

I've been suspecting for awhile that "pundits" are merely playing roles for entertainment purposes.

Posted by: rickl at December 14, 2018 01:39 PM (xjiRE)

571I feel bad for the non-editorial side but the Kristol Krew can burn in Hell.

He NEVER stopped arguing that, despite his flaws, McCarthy had the better of his enemies. He even wrote a book about it (with Bozell, Sr).

He was instrumental in the defeat of Lowell Weicker, who made Jeff Flake look like Jesse Helms. In fact, he was part of the movement that destroyed the full open Republican Left. (Lindsay, Rockie, even George Romney.) Since then, they've all at least tried to pretend to be conservative.

His anti-communism was as pure as the driven snow. He was pretty harsh on Ike on this score.

He wrote of academic bias and indoctrination - and kept Kirk doing so in NR - long before even Allan Bloom, let alone today's writers.

He really did upset the cultural left. They couldn't bear his mention, without denouncing him, as today they do Trump.

What he DID do was sustain a forum (NR) in which there was a genuine diversity of right wing opinion; something that doesn't exist today. It was Lowry who killed that.

574
"So that Clarity Media could strip The Weekly Standard for the few assets it had which were actually valuable, like its subscriber list".

So, their subscriber list is up to 18, huh? Or, does it include dead people, too?

Posted by: Anonymous White Male at December 14, 2018 01:40 PM (3sjI6)

575
I said pretty much the same thing to Caleb Howe after Redstate let him go and he was attacking everyone in the comment section at HotAir:

"Random tangent, Caleb. Completely unrelated but... how many backup punters do you think the Cowboys need to keep this year? I don't know either, but I'm certain it's not 24"

He didn't respond well.

Posted by: Fenrisulven at December 14, 2018 01:41 PM (XXPQA)

576I've been suspecting for awhile that "pundits" are merely playing roles for entertainment purposes.
Posted by: rickl at December 14, 2018 01:39 PM

* kisses *

Posted by: MeAgain at December 14, 2018 01:42 PM (ctuyM)

577
I'm a grandmaster of what they call "Tonal control." Most people -- almost all people, in fact -- have a distinct "literary style" that is as unique as their signature or handwriting, and as automatic and unconscious. They just write the way they write, and can't change it -- and aren't even aware that it is in any "style" at all. (This, in fact, is how they caught the Unabomber -- the feds asked the public if anyone recognized the literary style of his "manifesto" -- and his brother saw it and realized it sounded exactly like the way his brother Ted used to write. Ted himself off in his cabin had no idea that he was even writing in a "style." He was trying to be untraceable and neutral.) Anyway, a small percentage of people are not only self-aware of their stylistic "tone," but have the ability to alter it if desired. I think more people could have "tonal control" if they spent time peering at their own words and then practiced writing in different styles.
Posted by: zombie at December 14, 2018 01:36 PM (c+2jX)

Respect.

I had (and have probably) the hardest time expressing myself the way I intend to in little gray boxes here. Writing fiction, I can try on different 'voices' but I still tend more towards the terse and staccato over the ornate and verbose. I struggle to alter that for pieces that need a different voice. It isn't easy.

578
here a long long time, even banned a few, just moved so got new hash. I don't post much, just pissed off ace once when he banned Jim from Colorado.

and like everybody else, got banned at hot air and LGF.

Posted by: orangutang at D

not suggesting you have not been here a long time, simply that a long time ago they had many comments about how they went to lengths to disguise identity.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 14, 2018 01:42 PM (MTjB1)

579563
It's amazing how clear and methodical that crazy man could write his craziness. His manifesto is well-written.
Posted by: Axeman at December 14, 2018 01:38 PM (vDqXW)

It was thought-provoking, too. It was all about how technological advances inevitably erode our freedom. We can see examples all around us.

Posted by: rickl at December 14, 2018 01:42 PM (xjiRE)

580
the son of a mailman and cap'n cuck are still running for prezznit, right? they are the thikin men this country needs. also, that greasy, rubber, chicken isn't going to eat itself.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at December 14, 2018 01:36 PM (KP5rU)
*********************
They still don't get that we're not buying what they're selling.
I suggest they put their hat in the ring and run as blue-dog Democrats.

Feely good bull shit is bullshit. Kids' whose parents are too loosy-goosy feel unsafe and have all kinds of problems too. Love and kindness are not the same, wanting the best result is love, "kindness" ie saying nothing is your fault and free shit is deserved is a recipe for failure.

That's where I lose people when they talk about the WFB vs. JBS row - it's fine to think Buckley was in the wrong, but it's ridiculous to act like Buckley was soft on communism. If he was consistent on anything, it was his religious beliefs and dunking on commies.

586
Just sit right down and you'll hear a tale
A tale of a fateful trip
That started from Potomac's shores
Aboard Bill Kristol's ship
The mate was a Never Trumping man
The skipper smugly sure
Potential buyers sailed that day
For an asset stripping tour
An asset stripping tour
Accounting started getting rough
The tiny ship was broke
If not for the pose of the arrogant crew
Bill Kristol could be woke
Bill Kristol could be woke
The ship's aground on the shore of this
Unfunded desert isle
With Stephen Hayes
Bill Kristol too
No billionaire
And no cash
Nor blue check mark
Omidyar laughs and Soros passed
Here on Bill Kristol's Isle

Posted by: Russian Stooge at December 14, 2018 01:44 PM (HFYLP)

587
used to spend much more time worrying about the tone and text used here to avoid having any commonality with the stuff I write for work all the time. used to go for specific tone, avoid certain habits and mix vary them often.

now have gone to simply eliminating certain habits and style tics, using deliberately awk language.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 14, 2018 01:45 PM (MTjB1)

588
Obama let Russia run riot all over the world because he needed their help to arm Iran. and Hillary sold them everything that wasn't nailed down. But RAND PAUL is the Russian Stooge?

Posted by: Russian Stooge at December 14, 2018 01:44 PMPlease pick up your one complete copy of the Internets for December 14, 2018 at the front desk.

Posted by: Zap Rowsdower at December 14, 2018 02:01 PM (P/ALc)

598
Posted by: Blake - tis the season for grinching at December 14, 2018 12:36 PM (qC1Sy)
It's one thing if the margins are blowing you, but this is definitely gay.
Posted by: mugiwara at December 14, 2018 12:46 PM (B623R)

"This is the deal, and it's a good one. Big John is going to be leaving and I'll need a new chief of staff. Now, I'm going to level with you it can be rough. I'm a man that knows my own mind, but I'm willing to listen to advice. The others - the egos around here would make a Hollywood producer look like a wallflower, and I have known many Hollywood guys. And these cats can be vicious and back-stabby. So you would need an iron will to put people away. You savvy that?"

The Ewok shakes his golden hobo cull and yells "Jub-jub-jub, jubjubjubjub! Jub!" before making a sweeping cut and then mimicking turning a roasting spit and rubbing his belly.

"That's good, you're full of moxie, kid and I like that. You'll start at the New Year. Here's an employee list so you'll know all the names."

The Golden Scalp Weasel paw-bumps with the Ewok as it leaves.

*********************************

In a Chinese restaurant in Maryland Fu Manchu sits in his office dealing with unexpected visitors.

"I already have dishwasher! He's lazy, but I will make him work." He turns to the female "You would scare away the pigeons and that would be bad for bottom line."

"Ppppppppt! Says you President Fillmore!" Nancy replies.

Chuck Schumer soothes Nancy down, giving her a Rubik's Cube to play with.

"Look we need your help. I know the Golden Scalp Weasel is your foe and he is ours. We have control of the House and I am sure I can flip a few more of those imbecile GOPes to give me de facto senate control."

"I have no money to loan to losers." He looks over at Nancy gnawing on the cube. "Or loonies."

"It isn't money - the tech oligarchs have given us free access to their checking accounts and boy howdy! I didn't think that much real money actually existed."

"Moloch!" Nancy interjects.

"No, Nancy - it's moolah. No, we need advice, this is beyond our ken. All of my cunning, my corruption, the three coats of slime I exude everyday - none of this prepared me to handle this sort of emergency. I have been denying it for months, but I am afraid it is true." Chuck leans in closer to Fu Manchu. "I'm afraid Trump means to do exactly what he said he'll do." He says this and looks around in fright, wiping sweat and slime off of his forehead.

Fu Manchu blinks twice, his face stone cold. Finally he asks "And?"

"What do you mean 'And'?"

"Is there more?"

"More? What more could be said?"

"Well, of course he means what he said! He always means things - he boasts but he makes a promise he means to keep it! Why do you think we enemies? He vowed to break China! I'm no commie but I am not seeing the Middle Kingdom torn apart by a bunch of hairy foreign devils!"

"So what do we do? A politician's word is as good as a tissue paper cat in an inferno! If people start expecting us to keep our word the Democrats will be ruined! We can't keep our promises to every identity group out there! We need to break the Golden Scalp Weasel now!"

Fu Manchu strokes his mustache and smiles an evil smile. "Okay. I come up with plan, but first you got to do something for me."

"Deal."

**************************
"Who're you kid?"
"I'm Brad, an intern at CNN, but I needed some money to fix my car or my girlfriend is going to dump me. Who're you?"
"I'm the senate minority leader. Could you pass me those rubber gloves? I don't want dishpan hands."

608
Well..well..well..--Karma for the WS. I pray the deplorable class of middle-class employees find new employment (maybe, they could form a group-tell all about the lowlifes Swift, Hayes, Kristol)
I have emails from these SOB's excusing writing gossip for news...they're almost hateful, but..people SHOW you who they are by the company they keep #nevertrumpLosers

609
I cancell3ed my subscription some time ago,,,actually got a refund.

This was all about admiral Billy Kristol losing his perch as a DC insider and "sage" commenter.

To suggest we'd be better off with Hillary and celebrating the Deep State, admiral Billy exposed himself as a self-absorbed asshole.

Sail away, Billy

Posted by: John at December 14, 2018 04:22 PM (QD177)

610
Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale,
A tale of a fateful mag,
That started from some ideals,
But turned into a rag.
The editor was a mighty man,
A neocon brave and sure.
But as time wore on and on,
You couldn't tell him from Christiane Amanpour.
The climate started getting rough,
The status quo turned and tossed,
If not for the courage of staff writers,
The periodical would be lost, the periodical would be lost.
The mag lost all its subscribers when Trump won despite his style,
With Bill Kristol claiming moral high ground,
The readers left nevertheless,
Despite all of Mueller's lies
And the mainstream press
The writers are losing their jobs but with cable TV,
Well, you can guess the rest.
You can guess the rest.

Bill Kristol assured me personally that the Weekly Standard would never die.

I'm shocked that Bill was wrong on this.

Posted by: rcocean at December 14, 2018 07:42 PM (mX6ZJ)

616
At the end, they were writing Cory Booker puff pieces. And yet, George still didn't bite.

Posted by: rcocean at December 14, 2018 07:43 PM (mX6ZJ)

617
"That's where I lose people when they talk about the WFB vs. JBS row - it's fine to think Buckley was in the wrong"

Buckley disavowed the JBS because they refused to support the Vietnam War. The JBS thought the elites had no intention of winning in Vietnam. Which was "Kooky" in 1965, and the conventional view in 1975.

Posted by: rcocean at December 14, 2018 07:46 PM (mX6ZJ)

618
Without the Weekly Standard we'll only have the fawning press to keep an eye on Trump.

Weekly Standard went down because at the end nobody could separate them from MSNBC.

Posted by: rjschwarz at December 14, 2018 09:27 PM (hrBu1)

619
"...resulting in a relatively low amount of product on offer and usually the same repetitious product again and again and again

I used to subscribe to the NR print magazine. It must have been the late 90s when I gave up my subscription. NR actually called me, inquiring what was my problem. I told them that the magazine had become a repetition of itself. Every issue was the same thing: a rehash of all the reasons we hate the Clintons. Every two weeks: "here are some reasons we hate the Clintons"; two weeks later "these reasons to hate the Clintons are still valid"; two weeks after that "let us tell you why we hate the Clintons"; and so on and on and on.

And NR has gone steadily downhill from there. If you need to puke to force ValuRite to release its merciless hold on you, rather than shoving a finger down your throat just read Jonah Goldberg's interview with Rachel Martin on NPR "How Do Republicans Feel About The Latest Findings In The Russia Probe?"

Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at December 14, 2018 09:44 PM (o7l6R)

620
love the comment about Charlie Sykes - I hated to listen to him when he was on the radio here in Milwaukee

Posted by: isolden at December 15, 2018 10:53 AM (z0De4)

621
But which thoughtful conservative is going to write love notes to Cory Booker now that TWS is gone?